Carbs
Carbs are ideal nutrients because of 4 key reasons
-energy needs
-feed brain and nervous system
-keep your digestive system fit
-keep your body lean
Nutrition experts recommend a Fiber-rich Food.
Name 1 reason why?
-It maintains healthy digestible tract
-Helps with constipation, hemorrhoids, appendicitis and diverticulosis
-Lowers cholesterol and heart disease risk
-healthy weight management, less energy per bite
True or false
People with Type 1 diabetes; their own immune system attacks the pancreas, and they lose the ability to produce insulin?
True!
True or false?
Carbohydrates contain the sun's energy and green plants make carbohydrates in the form of photosynthesis; therefore, plants are a carb-rich food?
TRUE!
Photosynthesis=The process by which green plants make carbohydrates from carbon dioxide and water using the green pigment chlorophyll to capture the sun’s energy
Two types of fibers are?
Soluble Fibers= forms gels, not easily digested
Insoluble Fibers=retain shape and texture
True or false?
A majority of people with type 2 diabetes do not have an issue with weight?
False!
-Obesity underlies many cases
-Middle age and physical inactivity
-Body fat accumulation
-Genetic inheritance
True or False?
best way to lose fat is to cut carbs out of your diet?
FALSE!
Best way to lose fat, maintain lean body tissues and stay healthy is to control portion sizes
How much fiber should everyone be getting?
-about 14 grams per 1000 calories eaten
so for men- about 28 grams
and women about 20 grams
-depending on how much you are eating
True or false?
In order to keep type 2 diabetes under control
doctors recommend extreme weight loss?
False!
Keeping blood glucose level in normal range with proper diet, exercise, glucose monitoring and medication and some weight loss but not extreme.
all are correct except 1
People with type 2 diabetes should do the following:
1) have a low carb diet
2)Follow a calorie appropriate eating pattern
3)Limit added sugars
#1 is incorrect
A low carb diet (less than 130g a day) is NOT recommended
Which of the following flours have more grams of fiber per 1 cup?
Dark rye
Barley flour
whole wheat
buckwheat
whole-grain cornmeal
light rye
enriched white
Dark rye 31g
barley flour 15g
whole wheat 13g
buckwheat 12g
whole grain cornmeal 9g
light rye 8g
enriched white 3g
List 2 other added "sugars" food on food labels not naturally occurring.
There are at least 61 different names for sugar listed on food labels. These include common names, such as sucrose and high-fructose corn syrup, as well as barley malt, dextrose, maltose and rice syrup, among others.
The DRI (Dietary reference intake) recommends that people should get __________% of their daily energy from carbs?
a) 20-35%
b) 45-65%
c) 70-85%
B!
you should get 45-65%
The US Enrichment act of 1942 required that 4 items be added to refined grains: what are they?
In 1996 a vitamin was added to the above 4- what is it?
1942: Iron, Niacon, Thiamin & Riboflavin were added.
In 1996, the vitamin Folate (often called folic acid on labels) was added tot he list
47% of added sugars in the US diet come from?
1) dairy
2) sweets and snacks
3) beverages- not milk or fruit juice
3) 47% come from beverages
and most of it is from soft drinks